last update September 18, 2009, at 03:46 PM
by Stefano Deiuri
by Stefano Deiuri
Programme
Last update: 02.12.2009| Monday, 14 December, 2009 | ||
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8:30 | Registration | |
| 9:30 | Paolo Carloni (Sissa, Trieste) and Annalisa Pastore (NIMR, London) Opening address | |
| Session I - ThermodynamicsChair: Attilio Cesaro | ||
| 9:45 | George Rose (Baltimore) Prospecting in the Coil Library | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Ernesto Freire (Baltimore) Unstructured proteins define new allosteric mechanisms | |
| 11:45 | George Feller (Liege) Stability-activity relationships in natively unstable proteins | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Two selected talks | |
| Session II – Flexible or Unstructured ProteinsChair: Paolo de los Rios | ||
| 14:30 | Dmitri Svergun (Hamburg) Small angle X-ray scattering to study protein flexibility in solution | |
| 15:15 | Peter Tompa (Budapest) Transient complexes of intrinsically disordered proteins | |
| 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 | Bruno Samori' (Bologna) Probing conformational equilibria in monomeric amyloidogenic proteins by single molecule methodologies | |
| 17:15 | Marek Cieplak (Warsaw) Mechanical unraveling of proteins and virus capsids | |
| Poster Session | ||
| 18:00 18:30 | Poster Session | |
| Tuesday, 15 December, 2009 | ||
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| Session III – Fold and stabilityChair: Silvia Onesti | ||
| 9:30 | Richard Goldstein (London) The Evolution of Stability and Function: Lessons from Simple Models | |
| 10:15 | Pierre Goloubinoff (Lausanne) A chaperone working at Vmax: The catalytic properties of Hsp70/Hsp40 as an ATP-fuelled protein unfoldase | |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 | Selected talks | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Session IV – Low TemperaturesChair: Pierandrea Temussi | ||
| 14:00 | Selected talks | |
| 14:30 | Giuseppe Graziano (Benevento) On the molecular origin of cold denaturation and the possible role of alcohols | |
| 15:15 | Thomas Szyperski (Buffalo) NMR based structural biology in supercooled water: protein cold denaturation and more | |
| 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 | Brian Sykes (Alberta) What is the ‘active’ structure of Antifreeze Proteins? | |
| 17:15 | Felix Franks (London) Undercooling and vitrification of liquid water: in vivo, in vitro, and as technological tools for biostability control | |
| Poster Session | ||
| 18:00 18:30 | Poster Session | |
| Wednesday, 16 December, 2009 | ||
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| Session V - Closing SessionChair: Cristian Micheletti | ||
| 9:00 | Giancarlo Franzese (Barcelona) Interfacial water: effects on protein stability | |
| 9:45 | Gert Vriend (Nijmegen) Evolutionary optimized instability in a thermostable protease | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 | Peter Privalov (Baltimore) The stability of proteins that form complexes | |
| 11:45 | Doriano Lamba (Trieste) Concluding Remarks | |
| 12:00 14:00 | Lunch and departure | |